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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I used to think that abolishing copyright was going to be difficult, due to the fact that it also regulates so many aspects of commerce besides the buying and selling of books, but now I see all that's needed is an aggregation of high quality texts, reviewed and rated by those who wish to read them. All available to read prepurchase. The mechanics are still being worked on of course.
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Oh, I see. So this poll was intended to validate some pre-existing notions that you have regarding copyright.
For your conclusions to have any validity, you would need to pretend that consumers are the only stakeholders who have the right/ability to effect prices and that book authors will not say, "You and your over-bloated sense of entitlement can shove it. I don't care if you want it for free. These are my words and I own them."
You will also need to pretend that the respondents to your poll see no difference between
legally acquiring free ebooks through promotional offers, public domain servers, and libraries vs. downloading pirated copies over darknet. Such reasoning draws no distinction between what a person feels is an acceptable source for free books and what is unacceptable.
For the record: I feel that legal sources are acceptable because either the copyright holder is A-OK with me having the thing for free... or s/he's been dead a good long time and doesn't much care either way at this point. I feel that illegal sources are unacceptable because I do not take things that do not belong to me without permission. Forcing someone to give me something for free because I felt self entitled enough to strip them of their ownership is something that I also would say is unacceptable.
Is getting stuff for free nice? Yes, of course. But someone wanting something for free does
not mean that they believe that copyright ownership should be taken away from the author.